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Campaign Materials - Green Party

I received the Green Party Election Communication for Brent East earlier this week. I’ve scanned the 100% RECYCLED PAPER leaflet for you to download from here (front cover, inside, back cover). If you have not received the Green Party Election Communication, please let me know and I will pass it on to Shahrar. I spoke to him yesterday and apparently there has been a problem with the delivery of the leaflets by Royal Mail....

Mapesbury Residents Association AGM

Those active in local civil society and engaged in their neighbourhood were out at St. Gabriel’s Church on Walm Lane on Thursday night for the Mapesbury Residents Association Annual General Meeting. MapRA is a large and active group of neighbours all commited to woking for the benefit of the Mapesbury community. Attendance from the membership of MapRA is good and the nave of church was full. I had expected to see Sarah Teather there: She was there last year, speaking on some of the activities that she, as the local MP, had beeen working on with MapRA and other people from the neighbouorhood....

C4.com on Brent East

From Channel 4.com Election 2005 site. ‘Labour has placed its hopes on lawyer Yasmin Qureishi, who is openly anti-war in her selection process. But like many Labour candidates in what was Labour’s urban core support she is going even further to regain disgruntled voters by opposing the policies of the prime minister. She told Channel 4 news: “I’m one of those people who has their own mind, their own independent mind, and I make my own decisions....

Linkup for George 'Rainbow' Weiss

Thanks to a reader, here are some links for the Vote For Yourself Dream Ticket Party and George ‘Rainbox’ Weiss. This website details the background to the V4YDTP. While this page has DTP info. Links from a reader collecting campaign leaflets from this election. Send them some of the paper the Brent East Candidates send you. The Guardian website also lists George ‘Rainbow’ Weiss, but not as a candidate in this election (they need to get that page of their site updated)....

How will you convince Brent voters to give you another term as MP?

In December 2003, Simon Ellis interviewed Sarah for myBrent.co.uk. You can read the full interview here. What interested me was Sarah’s answer to this final question: How will you convince Brent voters to give you another term as MP? “I am going to have to work extremely hard over the next two years because many people voted for me partly on a protest. Some people voted for me because our policies but some people also voted against Tony Blair and I am going to need to persuade those people that there are positive reasons for voting for me....